It is awarded each year to three or four highly skilled craftsmen or women.
The training scheme is spread over a year and in that time the successful candidates will be able to widen their experience in a range of traditional building skills, repair techniques, materials and also prepare them for a position of responsibility.
The SPAB works hard at obtaining funding for the Fellowship and finding new sponsors has become increasingly difficult.
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SPAB Fellow Tom Flemons wins Gwyn Watkins Award
Stonemason Tom Flemons received the 2020 Gwyn Watkins award for his outstanding personal contribution both to traditional building skills and support of the SPAB Fellowship. The award recognises those who have demonstrated excellence in their own work, encouraged other craftspeople, and made a continuing contribution to building conservation, the SPAB and its Fellowship programme.
